The Press., 1887-03-31
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 The pews will be rented at the M. E.. church on Friday evening at 7.3O.
 Michael and Lott Halloran have taken situations in A. o. Eaton's store.
 Charles Johnson this week succeeds Pemberton in the grocery business. He will reside on Westford Avenue. Lawyer Reed will remove to 0. J. Holiness house on Edgewood.
 Rev. J. P. Hawley's sermon on Sun day evening was largely relative to the 1877 flood, the day being the 10th ami versary, whereby the Congregational church and other buildings were swept away.
 Mrs. Ann McCunningham advertises 10 sell at auction on Tuesday next at 10 8. m., her farm in the north part of Stat- ford, also tons of good hay, furniture, etc. zzs = sez -EW. Brooks and Samuel Rockwell have bought the Nathan Agard farm near Staffordville. The farm has 150 acres and with it is sold an outlying woodland tract of 19 acres. The buyers will sell the land, reserving the wood and timber. zzss g
 Timothy Collins who owns good farm near Stafford Hollow, adyerkises 1t for sale. ....
 Smith Bartlett returned on Friday af- ternoon from Florida, where he went last November to spend the winter with his son, s. ". Bartlett, at Daytona, Volusla County. His son Andrew, now living at St. Paul, Minn., has also been spending some time in Florida. MT. Bartlett speaks enthusiastically of the state, and expects to spend the next winter there if alive. He A ~ l ,wk1 oax xx1nII and prosperous, and all send regards to their northern friends. Alarge propor- ton of the business there, aside from the raising of oranges, is created by the con- sumption of vegetables by people from the north who spend their winters ln Florida. Mir. Corpe is largely interested also in land improvement by companies, who do large business in drainage, and MT. Bart lett does considerable at his trade as build or. f> F., rH ..- +S
 s-The following from the Topeka (Kan- sas) Daily Capital of March 22d, will inter- est many friends of Mir. Washburn. The purchased tract referred to is part of 8 quarter section Q60 acres) for which Mir. W. paid about 30 years ago $1 300, and this sale leaves him still possessor of one- eighth of the tract, with all buildings, or chards, etc. Mir. Washburn is brother of NAoN of J. M. Washburn Esq, former repre- sentative of Stafford in the legislature, and who removed to Topeka-where his sons also area few years since ''The big gest deal yet reported was closed yesterday. A syndicate of nine men yesterday bought 100 acres of Hon Avery Washburn, ,adjoin- ing the city on the west, paying him $1O0,- 900, or $1 ,O00 an acre. The purchasers are Mayor T. J. Anderson, Gen. A. B. Campbell, J. 0. Gordan, George D. Hale, James 4. Troutman, O. o. Knowles, T. l.. sStringham, and H. K. Rowly. This 100 acres will be plotted at once, and placed in the market. A glance at the list of names above will show that they are not adven- tfIrers, but solid substantial business men. When men of this kind make such invest there Is something substantial to back up Topeka's boom.
 MASONIC. Wolcott Lodge has regular communication on Saturday evening, Ionic Lodge on Monday evening. Orient chapter has stated convocation on Tues day evening and it's annual convocation on Wednesday evening. <
 The ladies of the Congregational so- ciety hold sociable in the chapel Tues day afternoon and evening of next week. Mrs. Spellman, Mrs. Parsons, Mrs. Apams and Mrs. Page ladies in charge. All are invited.
 -Adelbert Needham has sold at Chicago 8 carload of horses intended for the Stafford market. This will delay the arrival of his next shipment until about April 11th.
 Union prayer meeting on Tuesday evening next at 73 o'clock, at MT. Henry Goodell's, Stafford Street.
 IT Cono. |. been ill g shoe store in New York. has gone to Wyoming Territory, to take charge of branch store. The location is 800 miles from railroad.
 -Justice Washburn on Tuesday found Westcott innocent of being the owner oi the liquors last found at his reputed place of business, Westcott, Samuel Rockwell and Ruby, the persons in charge at the time, swearing that Westcott had sold out on the day before the seizure. The chiei consideration, however, was given to the fact that the Q. s. license under which Westcott sold was made made to M. s Westcott. Has Uncle Sam allowed him self to be made cats paw for criminals Who is M s. Westcott?
 s-The Congregational society on Tues day evening, at it's annual meeting chose F. H. Baker committee for three years 1. the members holding over being W. H Smith and ,. yM.g Leach. ". D. Heaic was reelected treasurer, W. ". Burwei clerk, and J.sY. Squier collector. Gilber s. Baker, Harry B. Bnrwell and Willie H Heald were eppOinted ushers. The treas urer reported reduction of the parisl debt during the year from S1 100 to $35O with provisions made for further reduction
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